Management authorized $150 million for a stock buyback this year but resists the union’s wage proposal, which would yearly come to $15 million more than the paper wants to pay. | Continue reading
FTC chair Lina Khan will almost certainly sue to block this consolidation. Despite a monopoly-friendly judiciary, she has a strong chance of success. | Continue reading
How the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the longtime graveyard of regulation in the public interest, became its unlikely champion. | Continue reading
He is spending prodigious amounts on lobbying and elections to ensure that crypto is lightly regulated in the future. | Continue reading
Today’s CEOs are essentially carnival barkers, induced to yell louder by a corroded business culture. | Continue reading
Amazon’s heavy-handed tactics triggered an explosion of organizing from inside its Staten Island warehouse, leading to a union victory. | Continue reading
‘Buy now, pay later,’ the latest fashion in consumer debt, is even worse than credit cards. | Continue reading
The yearly turnover rate among long-haul truckers is 94 percent. And you wonder why you’re not getting your orders on time? | Continue reading
A 2015 federal report predicted the entire slowdown that’s come to pass. | Continue reading
Rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics are the culprits. | Continue reading
In a surreal new lawsuit, New York nursing home owners say they make nearly a billion dollars a year understaffing homes and shortchanging patients. | Continue reading
How the unsustainable growth of the container ship industry led to the supply chain crisis | Continue reading
Why workers are quitting their jobs, after the trauma of the pandemic | Continue reading
Biden’s aggressive push against Chinese mercantilism has been marred by turf battles and cross-pressures. Here’s what needs to be done. | Continue reading
The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card. | Continue reading
Through either trepidation or cowardice, the Justice Department has shrunk from the onslaught of conservative legal opposition to the Biden agenda. | Continue reading
Scholar Samuel Moyn and journalist Spencer Ackerman consider the inherent contradictions of the endless war on terrorism. | Continue reading
Civic America has changed. The local forms of participation have faded, and new national advocacy organizations relying on direct mail fundraising have mushroomed. While there are some benefits to the new forms of advocacy, the shift has hurt our shared sense of democratic citize … | Continue reading
Many see nuclear power as a necessary part of any carbon-neutral mix. The reality isn’t so simple. | Continue reading
The e-cigarette company bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal, with all the articles written by authors on its payroll, to ‘prove’ that its product has a public benefit. | Continue reading
How hedge funds and brokers have manipulated the market. | Continue reading
Here’s the reality of institutional buyers and the single-family rental market. | Continue reading
Compared to the boomers, they’re way behind. | Continue reading
Innovations in journalistic pilferage at the Financial Times | Continue reading
Twilio has earned a progressive reputation for its explicit anti-racism and good corporate citizenship. But it sells video calling services to a prison telecom vendor that faces scrutiny for predatory pricing. | Continue reading
It’s not a shortage of labor, it’s a shortage of attentiveness to how the economy has failed its citizens. | Continue reading
The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step. | Continue reading
In recent years, economics has grown more concerned about inequality and how to fix it. The instigators of this epochal progressive shift ply their trade at UC Berkeley. | Continue reading
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work. | Continue reading
The most transformative part of the American Rescue Plan will be very hard for Republicans to reverse. | Continue reading
A decade ago, a Biden confidant tried to stop it. Now there’s another chance. | Continue reading
This era of speculation cannot be blamed on GameStop buyers on Reddit. Look, for example, at SPACs. | Continue reading
The world’s largest asset manager is poised for overwhelming influence no matter who wins the next presidential election. | Continue reading
Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House. | Continue reading
Not only are gig companies gouging workers and consumers, but traditional firms are benefiting from the substandard labor regime as well. | Continue reading
Henry Cuellar and centrist Democrats mutiny against progressives in a key committee fight. | Continue reading
Felony streaming legislation from Sen. Thom Tillis will be attached to an upcoming ‘must-pass’ omnibus government funding bill. | Continue reading
What will it require to take China seriously as an economic challenge? | Continue reading
A tragic history of how we’ve treated elderly citizens, for profit | Continue reading
Informed analysis of public policy and the politics of power, from a progressive perspective | Continue reading
Is Trump a fascist? You should ask the same question of your local police. | Continue reading
A new patent cements the company’s aims to use its power over sellers to consolidate control. | Continue reading
A judge empowered a private law firm to criminally prosecute Chevron’s nemesis—and now the firm has admitted it worked directly for Chevron. | Continue reading
An excerpt from a new book on life in the age of corporate power | Continue reading
Two books try to understand the other America, and stumble along the way. | Continue reading
Negative oil futures aren’t just a result of a glut in production. They’re a feature of an irrational system. | Continue reading
An older optimism about progress gives way the urge to predict the future, and both share a common trait—the refusal to accept responsibility for time. One mode of accepting responsibility for time and resisting the lure of both “Progress” and prediction is promise. | Continue reading